F1 Engine Power Secrets
A time traveler from 50 years ago would find today’s Formula 1 cars radically different, but would be equally surprised at the relative lack of change in engine technology. Turbochargers have come and gone and there hasn’t been a switch to two-stroke or rotary, scotch yoke engines – let alone to gas turbines or something not even invented in 1950. The good old four-stroke internal combustion engine powered the very first Grand Prix car in 1906 and lives on in a form instantly recognizable by any time-traveling engineers from 1950.
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